Alex Ankers

In a world of AI slop, the only real question: "How many squares of toilet paper..." #net 🦸 IPv6 was going to save the net 🔌 Connecting OCI VCN via Megaport 🧪 SRv6 Multivendor Lab 🤖 RoCE delivers lossless network 💨 Sshwifty Web SSH client 🎩 Management in the Age of AI reloadin.net/p/ai-learns-...

Remember Visual Basic? Wonder if AI can do a better job of placing that Submit button on this form than I can... #networks ⚒️ NetFlow Config Generator ✂️ Who is cutting the Internet cables? 🤩 Awesome AI NetDevOps 👴 Twelve Years no VPN 🤖 Azure SRE Agent for Networks reloadin.net/p/p-o-n-spel...

Whatever you do, don't name your Wireless Network "Packet Dump 💩" #networks: ⏰ Time for IPv6 💩 Emojis for Wireless SSIDs ⚡️ Who pays who to peer on IX? 🤖 Complete guide to Kimi K3 🔐 Microsoft brings Encrypted DNS 💰 Gateway 10 Gig play router 📅 The mythical Agent Month reloadin.net/p/change-man...

If 60% of the Internet is bot traffic, does that mean robots.txt is the new index.html? #networks ☎️ DNS GoDaddy to Cloudflare ⚡️ Optimise ExpressRoute 🔥 10 Gb without melting SFP ☁️ Flat is replacing fat in AWS 🤖 Bot traffic overtakes humans 🔌 LLMs as a Staff Engineer reloadin.net/p/60-of-the-...

"This network is bound to be tasteless, This network is dull as can be, But I am the Rat of the Information Superhighway, And this network belongs to me!" reloadin.net/p/rat-of-the...

"AI-driaaaaaaaan!" 🥊 This time in Networking: 🦾 RoCE delivers lossless AI network 🛜 9800 WLC differs from AireOS 🔄 Count to 13 with DNS 🕵️‍♂️ APMonitor.py is your Layer 2-4 NOC 🗼 OnlyRANs is absolutely filthy 🤖 You are probably behind with AI 🦀 Build and live OpenClaw reloadin.net/p/roce-i-plu...

99.99% sure on that one; in 5 mins I'll be 99.999% sure #networks: 🤖 CLI to AI with VibeOps ☁️ BGP for Cloud Connectivity 🧐 Let go of Certs, not skills ⌛️ Senior Engineers in a decade 🚦 All about AI traffic patterns 🌏 Region hop with just DNS 🕊️ Leadership is kinda a “V” reloadin.net/p/engine-eng...

There was an English man, an AI-rish man and a Scots... 🤖 #networks 💪 Network Devices with ZTP 🔥 Reduce HIP with AI for Firewalls 🧑‍💻 VXLAN as Code 🤝 Network Signal Control 🌈 How to tune a DWDM optic 🎭 SShiD for covert over Wi-Fi 💻 Shell Tricks 💼 Career post AGI reloadin.net/p/an-ai-walk...

Lost a lot of time and virtual cable on that boat... #networking: 🌎 Wirewiki to explore Internet ⛴️ Submarine cable laying boat game 💾 Multi-homed AS with GREs, Vultr 🦀 netclaw docs 6 days of itself 🛜 Layered Wi-Fi Troubleshooting guide 🦶 Kafka isn’t always the answer reloadin.net/p/not-playin...

If AI copies the phrase "AI for Networks, Networks for AI" does it pay copyright or...? 🤔 #Networks: 🤖 Cisco lossless AI in Enterprise 🤔 Less APs on the Wi-Fi 📞 Gigabit over PSTN ↔️ DNS transfer from NetBox 🌎 prefixd for Internet DDoS 🦾 Use AGENTS.md 💪 800 Gig Ethernet reloadin.net/p/ai-for-net...

Never have I ever... set anyone's switch access port to 10 Mbps Half Duplex as a punishment 🫣 #networks: 🤖 AI RAG system for Cisco Docs 💥 RoCE networks at scale 💪 Subnet peering on ExpressRoute 🤨 NSX platforms today 🤪 Not SSHing it 📝 Diataxis to write docs fast reloadin.net/p/just-got-1...

At the CNAME DNS gym, sticking to your New Year's resolution is easy 🥁 #networks: 🤖 AI Networks fail with... 😎 Vibe Code an IPv6 Planner 🇰🇵 Fibre cables in North Korea ☎️ Integrate NetBox with DNS 🌱 Creativity without drugs 🤖 GenAI in Enterprise 🇪🇺 Lost Internet in EU reloadin.net/p/new-year-n...

🎶 "He knows when you've been sleeping; he beeps your on call phone..." 🎶 #networks: 🔌 Power an AP from USB-C 📝 Simplify SR-TE mesh templates 📍 Fix GeoIP databases with RFC9092 🌏 Internet 2025 Tier 1 Report 🐿️ Beads extra vibe coding memory 🥷 TOWASP AI pen testing tools reloadin.net/p/sql-clause...

Beach Boys had it right all along; it's giving me excitations 😎 #networks: 🔒 PCAP all the encrypted DNS 🕊️ Flock9 from AutoCon 4 🕰️ Traceroute breaks time ✨ Don't need Wi-Fi 7 🌊 Visualise MIMO gains 🔀 Azure Route Server and Infoblox 🚛 Design Network Automation at scale reloadin.net/p/latte-to-t...

Acronyms that give pain: CDN, DNS, NTP, MTU 😔 #networking: 🐍 SQM to fight your home QoS 💥 Track Starlink’s growth 🔪 Cluedo with Zscaler, GRE and MTU 🤖 Gemini AI to test in EVE-NG 🧐 How to think like a Developer 👷 Your AI is a Senior Engineer 💼 AI broke interviews reloadin.net/p/when-the-c...

Does the Malbec subsea cable have FEC and HEC errors before a glass or two? 🍷 #networks: 🤑 25 free Cisco CE credits 🍽️ Escape Linux Network stack 🤖 Network Engineers obsolete? 💥 Solve Tailscale CGNAT 🔓 Tinker with NetBird 🎹 6x JetKVMs into 1RU 😴 Microshifting the 9-5 reloadin.net/p/malbec-mak...

Are Kirstie and Phil are spare to present GeoLocation, GeoLocation...? 📍 #networking: 🐞 Test Public DNS malware 🧗 Routing in Google GCP 🤔 Containerlab as an anti-pattern 🧑‍🎓 IPv6 Certification to prove knowledge 🤒 Calculating raw SLAs 🍱 Smuggle data out with emojiis reloadin.net/p/geoip-your...

I can name more Carriers than I can doughnuts, the shame... 🍩 #networking 🛜 Wi-Fi is down? 🍩 Baker’s Dozen on the Tier 1 Carriers 🥽 Down with the “W” of Optical Networks 🏋️ ISE Upgrade day at the gym ✍️ Terramaid for Terraform diagrams 🤖 See the Business like an LLM reloadin.net/p/the-b-in-b...

The only thing more weekly than Reload in 10 is another vendor CVE announcement 🩹... #networking: 🪄 Magic 168.63.129.16 Azure IP 🫷 Shrink the VPC in AWS 🆓 Accelerate DDI Migration 😎 Secrets to keep up 🌈 Back to basics on Optical 😱 Why Over-Engineering happens reloadin.net/p/todomd-age...

"He's a double-d, i-n-g... eBPF bear"...🐻 #networks: 🇵🇪 pwru to eBPF filter packets 📡 Dual-5 GHz Radios on Wi-Fi ⚖️ Anycast IPs with Azure Global Load Balancer 💥 How fragile the DNS root is 👍 32 free Cisco CE Credits 🛰️ Packets in Space 🦯 Host a website on a Vape stick reloadin.net/p/paddington...

This week in #networks: 📍 Wi-Fi 6 GHz improves high density 🐍 Journey to CCIE Network Automation 💥 Avoid Azure Private Subnet IPageddon 🛣️ Broadband with <0.1 dBm/km 🎥 Replay historical BGP Events 🤖 Compare MCP vs RAG for AI work 🚗 How Apple’s CarPlay actually works reloadin.net/p/co-hi-co-l...

Unix Epoch? Sure, but Network Engineers really fear 1 March 1993... 😳 #networking: 🦸 Avoid the Hero Trap in Networks 🦾 Automate a Network Lab with MCP 🧙 Peer into Google's future AI Network 😊 13 Software Engineering Laws 🧑‍🔬 LLM Course ✉️ You can't validate an email reloadin.net/p/epochalyps...

In Reload in 10's 100th Episode 🎉: 🚕 Uber test-drive the benefits of SD-WAN 📖 Arista CloudVision in 40 pages ⛓️‍💥 Roleplay with BGP in RFC9234 🥞 Dual-stack your DNS NS for IPv6 ⏰ Your parents advice is outdated 🐙 Production MCP Servers at scale 👾 Meganaut 1000 DC Speed Run reloadin.net/p/episode-100

There's 2.4 reasons you should only use 5 or 6 GHz in your Wi-Fi: #networking: 🧐 Cisco Live network and NOC 🤔 2.4 GHz in the Enterprise 👀 CDN coup in Italy 🤪 No need for a CCIE... 😏 Malware in DNS TXT records 🤖 Rethink CLI interfaces for AI 🪑 Make stand-ups useful reloadin.net/p/24-wi-fis-...

Interviewing a Network Engineer? Ditch the CCIE questions - get them to setup Quake III in LAN mode to actually work 😰. #networking: 🚰 Flow Control in networks 🔥 NAT on OCI Firewall 💊 BFD help 🤑 59 free Cisco CE Credits 🧐 Spot Base64 instantly 🧑‍💻 Don’t review Vibe Code reloadin.net/p/qosake-rac...

Remember the "You've got mail!" noise? Soz, afkbbl #networking: 👵 DCI back in AOL’s day ✅ Solve TCP issues with eBPF 🌟 GCP Cloud Network exam gold 🤼 somo as an alternative to netstat 📉 Await the AI Crash 🐧 History of BIRD routing 🥧 WLAN Pi Go for Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi 7 reloadin.net/p/youve-got-...

Normally flat lines on a graph are bad... #networking: 🎻 MCP Servers for Junos and NetBox 📉 Perfect 95% flat line on a link 🤿 Dive into Ansible AWX 🤔 FE80::1 is valid IPv6 🫣 tcpulse to stress the WAN 🧐 Compression culture is stupid 🏃 Fear about OpenAI Agents Read: reloadin.net/p/flatlining...

Network Slicing + Two Pizza Teams = Double-stuffed RJ45 Ports #networking: 🌐 AWS NAT Gateway interactive blog 🗺️ D2 to visualise networks 🎓 k8s for Network Engineers 🤔 Is Cisco NDFC really ACI? 🐍 BGP on ceEOS with Python 🤘 fck-nat for AWS VPCs 💀 Knowledge work is dying reloadin.net/p/two-pizza-...

Only on App'y Days could IPv6 Fonz use his historic catchphrase: AAAA(y) #networking: 📖 Win O’Reilly Arista book 🛜 How EVM impacts Wi-Fi signal 🌐 Use Internet without IPv4 ☁️ Hands-on with NetDevOps in AWS 💰 How much to spend on o11y 🖥️ The Network is the Computer reloadin.net/p/the-fonz-g...

Who Wants To Be A Network Engineer - Where "Phone a Friend" depends on whether you QoS'd the SIP Trunk #networks: 🤪 Traffic meter ASN filters 💰 Business Case for IPv6 🚗 Move 400 TB long 🎓 From Doing to Knowing 🤘 Notepad.exe gets updated 📊 NVIDIA overtakes Cisco sales reloadin.net/p/who-wants-...

Neighbor write erase? #networking: 🏡 IPTTH ISP Transit to your house 👋 Goodbye, ACI? 🏴‍☠️ All the Cisco Live BRK slides ☁️ Azure Network Security Workbooks 🎓 Understand AI + LLMs as a Network Engineer 🚦 Traffic engineering for AI Fabrics 🤘 Avoid in your Performance Review reloadin.net/p/cant-spell...

Just in case you haven't heard of Awesome Lists on Github github.com/sindresorhus... - highly curated community based lists of the best stuff

Hate On Call? This one cool trick stops Incident Managers dead in th-AI-r tracks... 💀 #networking: 🗳️ 2025 State of Network Automation ☁️ Build IPv6 in AWS 🔌 RP vs PoE for inline power ⚡️ First 100 Tbps Switch 🌍 Function calling LLMs in life ☎️ Breaking up with On-Call reloadin.net/p/ai-has-joi...

TCP-over-Airmiles you say? #networking: 🔀 Migrate a Cisco WLC with NSoT ☁️ ExpressRoute, FastPath and UDRs 🎓 DevNet Expert journey in 7-parts 📚 ✈️ PySkyWiFi using Airmiles as TCP 🧙 ASICs for Network Engineers 🥂 Fibre smashes 400 Tbps 🐿️ NUTS Network Unit Testing reloadin.net/p/go-nuts-fo...

This #networking week: ☁️ BGP Visibility with Cloudflare 🤖 Network Traffic Generation with MCP 🚢 Routed IPv6 in Docker 🧪 End-to-end SR-TE with OSPF 👨‍💻 Deep Learning for Network Engineers 📚 2025 Guide to Prompt Engineering 🛜 Streaming gNMI from Arista cEOS into k8s reloadin.net/p/i-need-to-...

If OpenAI had been a Web Development agency, they'd have called him Sam Titleman instead 🥁 #networking: 🤖 Agentic AI and your Network 🙈 Avoiding bad IPv6 🕵️‍♂️ Monitor Arista with gNMI 🎓 Intelligent Network Mandate 🐍 Run Python in production ✏️ Automate Diagrams with MCP reloadin.net/p/usb-to-wee...

If Baddiel And Skinner "Unplanned" had been about NetDevOps... 🧔‍♂️ #networking: 🔎 Network Threats with PCAPs 🆓 Book: Modern Network Telemetry 📘 IPv6 Guide for Engineers and Operators 🍿 1h EVPN Fundamentals 🥧 TinyPilot Raspberry Pi as a KVM 🏊 Diving deep into MCP for AI reloadin.net/p/itil-never...

"Routing Table? Nah, look at this 6509 Router Table - great cups, plants or putting your feet on..." ☕️ #networking: 📕 Network Engineer guide to NCCL 🥛 PAM6 on Optics 🍑 Optimal Segment List for SR-TE 👵 40 years of the .com ⏰ Agentic AI = SQL + cron 🚰 Azure VNETs do TAP reloadin.net/p/leaf-witho...

IPv6 is like brushing your teeth after OJ; you should, but it's gonna taste funky 🤮 #networks: 💀 Type-A Network Killers 👩‍💻 GitOps for Network Engineers 🤖 New AI Data Centre protocols 🚟 1436 is the GRE magic number 🆓 Catalyst SD-WAN Homelab 😵 The Enterprise is dead? reloadin.net/p/laser-poin...

Ever crimped a network cable with the foil from an Easter Egg? Me neither... 👀 #networking: 💻 Lab free for CCIE-SP 5.1 📕 DNS o11y on your network 🔒 Could you even run BGPsec? ☁️ Keep your IP Address on Azure AVS 🤖 Agentic AI comes to Networks 🪴 Protocols not Platforms reloadin.net/p/e-ai-ster-...

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No, it doesn't stand for "Multiple Choice, Please" 🧐. #networking: 😞 Internet Resilience is broken 🔄 MCP Servers with F5 BIG-IP 🐧 LLDP for Linux networks 🔌 Socket-level deep with Linux Networking 💥 QNodeOS for Quantum Networks 🎓 50+ hours of CCNP ENCOR learning reloadin.net/p/mcp-networ...